Letter-filing clip.



J. M. HILL LETTER FILING CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. s, 1913.

1,094,716. Patented Apr. 28, 1914.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH C0,, WASHINGTON, D. c.

UNTTED TATES PATENT @FFTQE.

JOHN M. HILL, 0F VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

LETTER-FILING CLIP.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN M. HILL, citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Letter- Filing Clips, of which the following is a specification.

securing letters together for filing.

Folders of Manila paper are generally used for holding such letters together for filing, but this system is open to objection in that as the letters are loose within the folder, individual letters frequently get misplaced and are possibly filed away in the wrong folder.

This clip is designed as a simple and inexpensive means for securing the letters of a correspondence together within a moderate thickness and in such a manner that the individual letters may be consulted without detaching them, while at the same time, if it is required to remove a letter from the file, the same can be done.

The invention is particularly described in the following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of the invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the retaining springs. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of another form of the invention. Fig. 4 is a detail section of a portion of the invention.

The device comprises a strip of thin sheet metal lengthwise folded over on itself with the edges of the upper part 2 well within the width of the lower part 3. The length of this strip is the full width of the letters it is designed to hold and the interspace between 2 and 3 suflicient with an ample margin to receive the full complement of letters which the file is designed to hold.

As the object of this file is to accommodate individual correspondence the interspace between 2 and 3 will probably not exceed an eighth of an inch. This part 2 and 3 constitutes the leaf holding portion of the clip within which the upper or lower edges of the letters are inserted. Preferably the lower edge is inserted as offering greater facility for reading the letters. They are retained in position within the clip by a thin strip 5 of spring material, which strip is bent as shown in Fig. 2-, to a wavelike form Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 5, 1913.

Patented Apr. 28, 1314.

Serial No. 783,049.

sufficient to exercise its resilience between the portions 2 and 3. To facilitate insertion and removal of this strip 5, portions are removed from the edge of 2, leaving notches t which are approximately over the upper bends of the strip 5.

In use, the edges of the letter sheets are placed bet-ween 2 and 3 and the strip 5 is This invention relates to a binder clip for inserted between them and the upper portion 2 and its resilience will retain them in position. When it is desired to add or remove a letter to or from the files the spring member 5 is flattened and withdrawn by application of the finger ends at 4 to the upper bends of the retaining spring 5, the desired sheet is added or removed and the spring restored. Small pointed projections 6 may be unched upward from the underside of 3 if it is found necessary to afford a better hold for the paper, on to the points of which projections the papers are pressed by the spring 5.

Where the device is designed to be used for independent cabinet filing, the lower portion 3 of the clip may be produced, as shown in Fig. 3, to form a supporting back for the correspondence and this back at the lower end of the letter sheet may be doubled back and beaded, as at 7, to a sufficient distance to retain within it the loose edge of the letter sheets, and the sides, as at 8, may be turned over into a substantially U- shape in cross section to afford a certain measure of rigidity to the back and to protect the edges of the sheets. With a slip so constructed the correspondence may be filed either vertically or horizontally in a cabinet with a reference letter or index number on the end of the fold 23.

An extremely simple letter holding device is thus provided which is effective in accomplishing the object for which it is designed. The retaining spring 5 adapts itself to the amount of correspondence in the clip and ready access is afforded for examination of any particular letter while, if occasion should require the removal of a letter, it can be readily done.

Having now particularly described my invention, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

1. A letter filing member, comprising a piece of thin material one edge of which is folded over and spaced from the other part and has portions removed from it and a narrow strip of resilient material bent to exercise its resilience between the folded portion and the other part of the piece.

A letter filing member, comprising a piece of thin sheet metal or other suitable material one edge of which is folded over the other, the lower portion having at least one pointed projection punched upward from it, and a strip of thin resilient material bent to exercise its resilience in the space between the folded portion and the other part.

A letter filing member, comprising a piece of thin sheet metal or other suitable material one part of which is folded for a short distance over and spaced from the other part, the over-folded edge having portions removed from its edge, and a strip of resilient material interposed between the folded portions said strip being bent to exercise its resilience between the two parts.

41-. A letter filing member, comprising a piece of thin sheet metal one edge of which is folded over the body of the piece to leave space between the two, the said body part instigate of the o-verfolded strip having at least one paper engaging projection and a strip of thin resilient material bent to a wavelike form and inserted between the overfolded portions of the piece.

5 A letter filing member, comprising a sheet of thin sheet metal conforming fully to the dimensions of the letter sh ets it is designed to hold, both ends of said sheet be ing folded inward substantially parallel to the body of the sheet and the side edges reinforced to afl'ord a measure of rigidity to the sheet, and a strip of resilient material bent to exercise its resilience between the sheet and one of its overturned ends, and provision for facilitating entrance and removal of this spring under the overturned end.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN M. HILL.

Witnesses ROWLAND BRITTAIN, R. J. Srmn.

Copies oi this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

